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rescue him after he was
thrown onto the wires fol-
Latest News lowing an auto accident
in Blue Springs, Mo.
Thompson spent 20 minutes
hanging onto the wire before he
was rescued and was not
injured in the incident.
A woman threads a live snake up her nose and out her mouth
during a performance at the Temple of the Earth fair on the eve
of Chinese New Year in Beijing Friday 2003. Thousands crowd-
ed the fair Friday in early celebrations of the Year of the Goat,
which begins Saturday.
Bruce, the world's longest
goldfish, swims with regular-
size goldfish at Shanghai
Ocean Aquarium February 3,
2003. Named after the late
Cathie Jung of Mystic, Conn., kungfu star Bruce Lee, the
wears a corset during the male Oranda goldfish meas-
Manhattan Vintage Clothing ures 43.5 centimetres long
Show exhibition and sale (17.1259 inches) from snout to
Friday, 2003 in New York. At 15 tail-fin end and is certified as
inches she is the holder of the the world's largest by the
Guinness Book of World
Guinness Book of World Records.
Records smallest waisted living
person.
Russian President Vladimir Putin , left, and Dobby, the house elf
character from the movie 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets,'' are shown in this photo combo. Moviegoers around the
world have been struck by the resemblance between Putin and
Dobby. The BBC even set up a Putin/Dobby poll on its children's
web site. Out of 9,188 people who had cast votes as of Friday,
Jan. 31, 2003, nearly 57 percent agreed that Putin does look like
Dobby.
A stranded young the India-Bangladesh border as
Bangladeshi girl holds up the neighboring countries
a snake on the India- argued about which country
Bangladesh border at they came from.
Shatgachi village in West
Bengal . Joe Thompson III, age
More than 200 people, most 18, hangs onto utility
of them snake charmers and wires as he waits for
their children, were trapped on emergency workers to
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In this video image released
A young girl squeezes herself into a tube during an acrobatic performance at a temple fair in Beijing by NASA at the Kennedy
on the third day of Chinese New Year . Fairs across the city are crowded with people enjoying per- Space Center , seconds after
formances during their week-long Spring Festival holiday. liftoff of Space Shuttle
Columbia on Thursday, Jan.
16, 2003, a shower of particles
are shown after pieces of
Iraqi President Saddam
debris struck the underside of
Hussein , third from left,
the LH wing (left hand wing) of
meets with Iraqi military per-
the orbiter. According to NASA
sonnel in Baghdad, Iraq, in a
the debris appears to have
photo released by the Iraqi
originated from the area of the
News Agency. Although his
Y bipod attach point on the
portraits and statues are
external tank. The Y bipod is
everywhere, the Iraqi leader
what connects the external
hardly ever appears in public,
fuel tank to the space shuttle.
and until the past month he
NASA's immediate study of
hadn't been seen much on
the image determined no dam-
tightly controlled state televi-
age to the orbier Thermal
sion. But lately the personality
Protection System was appar-
cult has been dominating the
ent; futher analysis is continu-
air waves, usually in excerpts
ing.
of meetings with officers and
aides.
The North Korean Central News Agency released a propaganda poster January 31, 2003
depicting North Korea's military power. North Korea's official media said on February 3 that
the communist state's troops were in full combat readiness in case of U.S. aggression,
amid signs of rising tensions over the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. Radio
Pyongyang quoted Korean People's Army chiefs as vowing loyalty to North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il, who it said had toured two army units over the weekend as his country vilified
the United States over the three-month-old nuclear impasse.
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